Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2023-01-09
Books mentioned on The Outer Limits of Cognitive Science | Dr. John Vervaeke | EP 321
Jordan Peterson discussed The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, and Euclid's Elements.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical novel that explores deep spiritual questions surrounding faith, free will, morality, and the human condition.
Discussed“you see something similar happening in the brother's karamazov”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound 19th-century Russian novel that follows the compassionate, innocent, and deeply misunderstood Prince Myshkin as he navigates the cynical and corrupt high society of St.
Discussed“and Dostoevsky also explores that in the idiot because that's Prince Michigan right it is the Christ analog for all this purposes right”
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Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements by Euclid and Dana Densmore is a foundational mathematical treatise that systematically establishes geometry and number theory through initial definitions, postulates, and rigorous logical proofs.
Discussed“Spinoza is like reading Euclid's elements because it's patterned on euclide your axioms and proofs and Theorem”
Where to get it
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“here we have a Gutenberg Bible printed on the Press of Johan goodberg”